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About The daily Nebraskan. ([Lincoln, Neb.) 1901-current | View Entire Issue (Oct. 29, 1976)
frt&r, ectcbcr 23, WQ pr3 5 Xmmttf lrm4 . I Take your whisky straight or with an 0 By Tfeore ?J. En&s&a ' 7iw Ai-si of drinks. At the end of an article last month I hid KMff. Samuel C. Crown of Coston writes to say that the word was r?dl:d improperly and he lays down a guide" to the proper sptShz of two kinds of Ikpon Scotch whhXy and Bourbon wki&ey. Cat he doesn't go far barnstein on words enough. The facts are that American as! Irish booze is spelled whiskey, while British and Canadian spirits are speZed whisky. And now, folks, drink . . . hie. . . up. h'ronzoff-R&ronf It's a new game we have invented, which rmght behelpful in English instruction, and we named it Wrongoff-Rthton! Here's the way it works: Ye present to you several sentences each of which contains one wrong word. When you think of the right word for sentence No. I you put it down to be the first word of a -new sentence We are trying to build. Then you go to sentence No. 2, you discover the wrong word in that one, and you set down the word it should have been as the second word of the new sentence. And so on. Here we go, then, with eight sentences, each containing one wrong WM A TornIi:son Collection i p& Exhibit and Sale WM. "----"-vi yy.-.-yi MM:-' ShelJon llemorisl - W ArtGsZsry gig:: Friday Oct. 29 I3to5:C0Pjn. &0 Ongsslthsia Frists ::$ Dicer . linear Rembraat VL!er 1&m " UsEa Iladea Picasso JAZZ BY ORiGM. no cover charge Tensest end tcrocrrcv niht zX Ctecar's. If you IZ;e jszz. Youll enjoy Orion. Ona cf Lir.ccLYs finsst .jazz groups. OSCAR'S Ups&ls-s in ths Gcnnys El? i - .i , "THE EQUET U EHHIMIJ 1; cu::2ay t::2iT, ccr. si, osd pxi P7n NA(A word. Ti'hrt you are to do is find the n'ht word that shou!d have been used in each instance, set it down, go to the next sentence, then the next and the next untJ you have completed the eight-word target sentence. 1 . Our cat lays down after every meal. 2. The ninety members of the dub B to meet next week. 3. The candidates insulting remark was unexcusable. 4.1rregard!ess of the heavy rain, the party went out filing. . 5. The IVessderitiaf Palace is east from Beirut. 6. Vhonisha3 1 say is calling? . 7. She say she is too tired to swrni. 8. For they who love their city the tax is not too bad. The R 'ckton sentence appears below. juraijl sXes ouai jo ssajpnSaj aiqssnsxao? are $3nw raauajuas uonfiu aqx -Now for something good. Suppose the home team lost and a home town sports writer said that the opposing team "went ahead for good" in the second quarter. Some home town readers might ask, "What was good about it?" J. V. ViSiams of Philadelphia asks whether the phrase for good is a colloquialism or perhaps Pennsylvania Dutch. It is neither, it has been in use in English since the early 17th century. Sometimes it appeared and still appears as for good and all. It suggests a valid conclusion, a condition of finally indicating no further cause for concern. In that sense good could be taken to mean good. Wood oddities. "Did you ever eat a hamburger made wi A ham?" asks Ra!ph Berrelli of Ambler, Pa 'Then why are they called hamburgers?" They are called fusnhwgm because they originated in the German city of Hamburg, Originally, almost a century ago, these chopped beef dishes were called hmburg stacks, then they becsne h&nbuTger steaks and when they developed into sand wiches they were termed hamburgers. (During VorldVar I hamburger steaks were called Salisbury steaks.) The ham part of hamburger apparently deceived many people because the -burger part came to be regarded as a suffix and that brought into being cheeseburger, chickenburgcr, porkburger and you name it. Cetter yet, you eat it (cl 1373 TKwosSora UL Camttein Special Fcaeuns r 1 1 - U LI. lJ L . . O n illllli 1 1 1 f SET --- . J S i I -J lii f i I 2 ...vQJjD 230 - " . . ... -m m ' V 1 --"V;-": i in s i m it; ? v if HJl4"!WlliWllW I X Y I 4 ; l if' .31 1! A' tr